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Bianca
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« on: November 13, 2007, 06:07:42 pm »







He wasn't supposed to be there. Spirit Caveman is the wrong guy, in the wrong place, at the wrong

time. According to the standard anthropology script, anyone living in America 9,000 years ago should

resemble either today's Native Americans or, at the very least, the Asians who were their ancestors

and thus, supposedly, the original Americans. But Spirit Caveman does not follow that script—and

neither do more than a dozen other skeletons of Stone Age Americans.



Together, the misfits have sparked a spirited debate: who were the First Americans?






The emerging answer suggests that they were not Asians of Mongoloid stock who crossed a land bridge into Alaska 11,500 years ago, as the textbooks say, but different ethnic groups, from places very different from what scientists thought even a few years ago.

What's more, stone tools, hearths and remains of dwellings unearthed from Peru to South Carolina suggest that Stone Age America was a pretty crowded place for a land that was supposed to be empty until those Asians followed herds of big game from Siberia into Alaska.

A far different chronicle of the First Americans is therefore emerging from the clash of theories and discoveries that one anthropologist calls "skull wars."

According to the evidence of stones and bones, long before Ellis Island opened its doors America was a veritable Rainbow Coalition of ethnic types, peopled by southern Asians, East Asians—and even, perhaps, Ice Age Europeans, who may have hugged the ice sheets in their animal-skin kayaks to reach America millenniums before it was even a gleam in Leif Ericson's eye. "It's very clear to me," says anthropologist Dennis Stanford of the Smithsonian Institution, "that we are looking at multiple migrations through a very long time period—migrations of many different peoples of many different ethnic origins."
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